BUG() the kernel via the hotplug target sysfs file

* BUG() the kernel via the hotplug target sysfs file
@ 2017-06-02 14:47 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior @ 2017-06-02 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thomas Gleixner; +Cc: Ingo Molnar, linux-kernel

It is possible to BUG() the kernel via the hotplug target interface via:
|echo 91 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/hotplug/target
| Unregister pv shared memory for cpu 7
| ------------[ cut here ]------------
| kernel BUG at kernel/cpu.c:747!

which is:

|  void cpuhp_report_idle_dead(void)
| {
|         struct cpuhp_cpu_state *st = this_cpu_ptr(&cpuhp_state);
| 
=>       BUG_ON(st->state != CPUHP_AP_OFFLINE);
| …
| }

So the states are:
 89: idle:dead
 90: ap:offline
 91: sched:starting
 92: RCU/tree:dying
132: ap:online
133: cpu:teardown

and cpu:teardown (takedown_cpu()) invokes:
 cpu_stopper_thread()
 multi_cpu_stop()
 take_cpu_down()
 native_cpu_disable()
 cpu_disable_common()

which clears the CPU from cpu_online_mask. This means, as things are
now, we can't stop at any state between cpu:teardown and idle:dead.

Sebastian

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